Product Description

In this guide to Apple’s masterful new color grading and finishing application, award-winning colorist David Gross starts with the basics of color balancing and correction and move on to the fine points of secondary grading. Topics include scene matching, using vignettes to isolate and track regions, creating advanced color effects and “looks,” skin tone adjustments, and adjusting the composition and framing of a shot. As with the other titles in the Apple Pro Training Series, each chapter in this Apple-authorized guide represents a complete lesson--with a project to complete and a review section to reinforce the lessons. Superb footage, including several BBC productions and broadcast commercials, provide real-world examples for you to work through as you master this revolutionary software.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #42590 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01-03
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 408 pages

From the Back Cover
In this guide to Apple’s masterful new color grading and finishing application, award-winning colorist David Gross starts with the basics of color balancing and correction and move on to the fine points of secondary grading. Topics include scene matching, using vignettes to isolate and track regions, creating advanced color effects and “looks,” skin tone adjustments, and adjusting the composition and framing of a shot. As with the other titles in the Apple Pro Training Series, each chapter in this Apple-authorized guide represents a complete lesson--with a project to complete and a review section to reinforce the lessons. Superb footage, including several BBC productions and broadcast commercials, provide real-world examples for you to work through as you master this revolutionary software.

About the Author
David Gross is an editor and colorist at Definition Films, based in Sydney, Australia. Located in the heart of the Australian film industry in Fox Studios Australia, he specializes in providing HD solutions to international clients including 20th Century Fox, Discovery Channel International, Sony BMG, Universal Music, Becker Entertainment, and MTV.

Customer Reviews

Essential! for Final Cut graders
If you are used to Final Cut for grading and color correction, and are slightly intimidated by that new app in your suite because it looks like 'proper' software, just spend the money get this book and prepare to fall in love with Color. It is so well made and easy to follow, you will find the whole learning experience a complete joy, and within no time you will only use Final Cut's grading tools for quick previews, and be looking forward to exporting your project to Color.

Even for primaries Color is far superior to Final Cut's tools, it may seem hard at first, but seriously it only takes a few hours until Color becomes second nature to you... if you do any grading, do yourself a massive favour and just buy this book, just like every other Apple Training book, it brings out your creativity and makes you remember why you decided to do work in this field in the first place!! its an official Apple book, and just like anything else made by Apple, the user experience is the most important factor in its design, this isn't some stuffy textbook, this is extremely digestible and very well made.

Sure you can get free online tutorials, but nothing beats a book on the table beside your monitor and actual project files and assets to work with, £30 is a small price to master the power Color affords you!